Bill Clinton more watched than Hillary Clinton

Last Sunday's morning talk shows were all about the Clintons.

NBC's "Meet the Press" with David Gregory took the top ratings spot with 3.26 million viewers.

That win was due to ex-President Bill Clinton, who was a guest on the program.

In second place, CBS' "Face the Nation" pulled in 2.86 million viewers. Harry Smith, sitting in for Bob Schieffer, interviewed Hillary Clinton.

The secretary of State's appearance clearly wasn't enough to push the CBS show into first place. Hey, Hillary, what would Bill think of that?

George Stephanopoulos, clearly having made a mistake by not at least getting Chelsea Clinton on his show, came in third, with 2.65 million people tuning in.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Sen. John McCain showed up on ABC's "This Week." Two old guys talking about war.

Fox's show came in last again with less than half the number of people who watched Stephanopoulos' show. Yes, "Fox News Sunday" still exists. No, it didn't get a Clinton. 

But those numerous non-viewers missed the day's big talk-show news, ironically.

As The Ticket reported here, it was host Chris Wallace's question of California Democrat Dianne Feinstein eliciting the information that she's really good with Guantanamo Bay detainees being shipped to her home state to help fellow Democrat President Obama close that prison facility in Cuba. Kit Bond, the show's other talking senator and a Republican, was also good with the terrorists going to California and not Missouri.

-- Mark Milian

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Comments

[csh]

Bill and Hillary Clinton are political superstars - not to mention very smart and capable people. The public will always be interested in them.

[Stacy]

I didn't realize it was a contest with respect to former President Clinton and Secretary Clinton. You guys in the media love to focus on this kind of stuff, don't you. I expect soon we are going to be hearing more "Bill Clinton is overshadowing his wife" clap-trap. Why can't you just report on what they each are doing without it being a contest? I mean, I know Clinton Derangement Syndrome has a powerful pull, but still, it's kind of the difference between good journalism and gossip...